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Personality and Complex Systems. An Expanded View

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Nowadays, dynamic S-P-R models, developed within personality research, seem to offer the chance for the development of a unitary research framework, one including individual and environmental factors, from both structural and dynamic levels of personality. Complexity concept is a fundamental element of convergence of the different existing theoretical and methodological approaches. From this expanded view, personality appears as an “hyper-complex” system of intra-individual circular interactions, and of recursive relations between internal and external factors, that develops and grows self-organizing. This approach takes into account, within a wide interpretative framework, the contributions from various humanistic and scientific disciplines.

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Meleddu, M., Scalas, L.F. (2006). Personality and Complex Systems. An Expanded View. In: Minati, G., Pessa, E., Abram, M. (eds) Systemics of Emergence: Research and Development. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-28898-8_14

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